4 GHQ Signals

[KScott24809]

Good afternoon,

I was recently looking through some old photographs with my grandmother and she showed me a letter her father wrote to her mother towards the end of the war. On the front if the letter it has written in the from section:

Cpl Sanderson
REME LAD
4 GHQ Sigs
PA1 Forces

Now I'm familiar with the REME and with the purpose of LADs but I know little about the war time efforts of 4 GHQ Signals. I know my Great Grandfather was in North Africa and I can tell from his military issue "From Baghdad to Beirut" that he likely also ventured with the military to the Middle East. But I was wondering if anyone here knew what 4 GHQ got up to in approx 1944/1945 as this is likely where my Great Grandfather would have been serving.


Much obliged for any assistance.
Keiren

[MaxD]

PAI Force (Persia and Iraq Force) dates this photo to perhaps a little earlier.

GHQ Signals would be the Royal Signals unit(s) that provided the signals support to the top level, the General Headquarters of the Force and his LAD kept the signallers on the road.

The 1942 organisation of the force is shown here:http://www.niehorster.org/017_britain/42-10-23/paic/_command_paiforce.html

More here:

https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/docs-persia-iraq-1941-1947-overview-higher-formations

There is a 1943 war diary, not digitised, at Kew (currently closed).

MaxD

[KScott24809]

PAI Force (Persia and Iraq Force) dates this photo to perhaps a little earlier.

GHQ Signals would be the Royal Signals unit(s) that provided the signals support to the top level, the General Headquarters of the Force and his LAD kept the signallers on the road.

The 1942 organisation of the force is shown here:http://www.niehorster.org/017_britain/42-10-23/paic/_command_paiforce.html

More here:

https://www.britishmilitaryhistory.co.uk/docs-persia-iraq-1941-1947-overview-higher-formations

There is a 1943 war diary, not digitised, at Kew (currently closed).

MaxD

Fascinating!

Thank you so much.